Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1887-09-30
DAKOTA HAPPENINGS.


over thirty bushels of wheat to the acre.
The Valley City Times reports the dis.
covery, by Mr.. Sykes, of a tree contain
ing ninety pounds of wild honey.
In Aurora county $500 reward was Of
fered for information leading to convic.
tion for any violation of the game law.
In Rapid City thunder. storm barn
containing six horses was struck by light
nlng, killing three horses and injuring
three.
At Sioux Falls, recently, tho city fire.
bell tower, seventy feet high, was struck
by tremendous bolt and almost com.
pletely demolished.
Handsome Elk, an Indian in the county
Jail at Chamberlain for the murder of his
father-in-law, was recently baptized into
the Episcopal faith by native minister.
The Pembina County commissioners
have been compelled to order vote on
the local-option question. The county
board of Hughes county has taken like
action.
The Farmers Alliance of the territory
have made arrangements with Chicago
coal.dealers to get their supplies at re-
duction from regular rates of about 25
per cent,
Gray wolvee have made their appear
ancs in large numbers on the ranges
north of the Black Hills. They have in
f1icted great damage on horse and cattle
herds by killing nearly all the colts and
calves
Near Iroquois Mr.. Dame was milking
when lightning struck and killed group
of cattle few feet distant from him.
The shock rendered the man and the COW
temporarily lnsensible, but did no further
damage.
A lynx that was enjoying feast in a
Washburn hencoep was killed by being
pinned to the wall with pitchfork and
his brains being beaten out with club.
He measured feet % inches from the
end of his nose to the tip of his tail, and
stood feet inches high.
An army deserter from Fort Totten
was captured at Darlington by the sheriff
of Foster county; but while the two
were standing near the depot the soldier
made dash for freight train just pull
ing out of the depot and succeeded in
getting away from the officer.
Near Warner, Mrs. J. H. Miller, in FILL
ing her gasoline stove, spilled gasoline
on her dress. Her clothes caught fire
when she lighted the burner, and, rushing
out of doors, she ran several rods, until
she dropped from exhaustion. She was
so horribly burned as to live but few
hours.
Not all of the Aberdeen folks are above
playing mean trick on prisoner. A
city jailbird who was the possessor of &
ten-dollar gold piece and an appetite fol
stimulants gave an outsider the ten dol
lars with the request to procure for him {
drink. He has since been minus botl
the money and the liquor.
Some birch baskets were found in the
last-opened Indian mound near Devil
Lake, which are of especial interest il
the light of the accepted belief that tn
mound builders were Of race existing
thousand years ago. The baskets wer
apparently made to be water-tight, bein
constructed of one piece SO folded at til
edge as to avoid cutting.
a Little Charity Is q Good Thing.
Some twelve years ago a young printe
in Philadelphia was arrested on char9
of arson. His name was Volkmar. Al
though it does not appear that the evi
dence against him was strong, yet he be
came panic-stricken and left for the wes1
Many years age q young man known q
A. H. Lewis wheeled little printing ol
flee across the prairie and established th
Review at what is now the flourishin
tewn of Milbank. His life was uprigh,
he published the best paper in that pal
of Dakota, and he was well liked by mos
of the people. But even as Job woul
do, were he editing country news
paper to-day, he made some enemies
He married an estimable lady, who al
sisted him greatly in his business entel
prise. But "the way of the transEresso
Is hard"--likewise of one accused 9
transgressien, even though he may be in
.nocsnt, And so it isn't strange that o
. day not long, since Philadelphia d.
tectiys arrived in Milbank and arreste
Henry s. Volkn,ar, alias Alfred II. Lewi
| Now. it appears that in the town 9
Milbank there is a rival paper publishe
by D. NJ. Evans. And Aessrs. Evana an
Lewis, in the absence Of more profitabl
matter with which to pad out their hon
pages, were wont. after the manner {
country edltors-yea, even of those of th
big dailies-to rip one another up til
back, editorially, and jump, fgurativel
speaking, each on the neck of his oppt
nent. With most editors this display {
temper" is usually, like their physics
beauty, but skin deep. and graphic po
travail of its methods may be found in til
writings of Artemus Ward, where he q
lows rival editor to pay his respects
1.-THE Hsll-hounds of the Advertiser"
| We believe it is maxim Of law an
justice that the one accused should b
considered innocent until proven guilty
But 1t seems that Mr.. D. NJ Evans, edlte
of the Milbank Index. does not view th
matter in this light. For, no sooner We
4 his rival taken of to Philadelphia, tina